Detection of low level cryoglobulins by flow cytometry

Cytometry Part A

Volumn 81 A, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 883-887

  Müller, Rüdiger B ^a,b   Vogt, Birgit ^a,c   Winkler, Silke ^a   Muñoz, Luis E ^a   Franz, Sandra ^a   Kern, Peter ^d   Maihöfner, Christian ^a   Sheriff, Ahmed ^a,c   von Kempis, Johannes ^b   Schett, Georg ^a   Herrmann, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b Kantonsspital St Gallen ^*  (Switzerland)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^d KLINIKUM FULDA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cryoglobulins; Flow cytometry

Indexed keywords

ANTI IGG; ANTI-IGG; ANTI-IGM; ANTIIDIOTYPIC ANTIBODY; CRYOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; LIPID;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; CALIBRATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CRYOGLOBULINEMIA; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; MICELLE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANTIBODIES, ANTI-IDIOTYPIC; CALIBRATION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CRYOGLOBULINEMIA; CRYOGLOBULINS; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LIPIDS; MALE; MICELLES; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84866618053     PISSN: 15524922     EISSN: 15524930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cyto.a.22112     Document Type: Article

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